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    Explorer Sir Edmund Hillary's historic Antarctic hut has been saved and restored thanks to a successful fundraising campaign and the application of coatings donated by AkzoNobel.

    A specialist team from the Antarctic Heritage Trust spent three months toiling in temperatures as low as minus 40°C to renovate the famous landmark, which was built in 1957 and contains hundreds of precious artifacts.

    Exterior work included building a new aluminum roof over the existing leaky one. The metal is coated with a special topcoat batch of the company's Polydure® coil coatings.

    "As a company with more than 200 years of experience in developing paints and coatings, we understand the importance of preserving history and heritage," said Greg Foster, AkzoNobel's sales manager for Coil Coatings in South Asia. "So we were delighted to support such a significant restoration project and help safeguard such an important building."

    The hut was originally constructed for the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition. It houses more than 500 artifacts, which have now been painstakingly conserved by Antarctic Heritage Trust experts. The aluminum for the new roof was painted by AkzoNobel customer Pacific Coil Coaters in New Zealand and installed by specialist standing seam roofer, Mike Burgess.

    "We built the new roof on top of the existing roof so that in 50 or 100 years if future conservators want to restore the building to what it was, all of the original building will still be present," explained Chris Ansin from the Antarctic Heritage Trust. "To preserve these huts is preserving their legacies."

    Money for the million-dollar project was raised in Hillary's native New Zealand and included a government contribution of $180,000. The explorer is perhaps best known for being the first person to reach the summit of Mount Everest.

    His hut forms part of Scott Base, New Zealand's only Antarctic research station. It joins several other buildings on the frozen continent to have been coated by AkzoNobel, including the British Antarctic Survey's Halley VI research station and explorer Robert Swan's e-Base at Bellingshausen.

     
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